For 's calendar project.

This sat unfinished on my computer for nearly 2 months before I touched it again, and unfortunately I ended up being the last one to submit, ooooops. XD;; Sorry sorry.

My phoenix character, Mei. It was badly rushed inbetween homework assignments but I'm happy with the overall end result. The background image was actually edited from a Japanese room screen from the 1500's attributed to Sesshū Tōyō, and the brushes used on her kimono are from ~darkgarden Everything else was hand-painted in Painter X and Photoshop CS3- mostly the latter because painter couldn't handle the large image size..

detail shots:

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Thanks for viewing!